28-year-old British Adventurer Jamie Maddison has joined as member of The Challenger Programme, which was set up by luxury watch brand Christopher Ward to support up-and-coming sportsmen and women in their bid to achieve their ambitions.

He’s lived and adventured with eagle hunters in Western Mongolia, ridden horses 800 miles across Kazakhstan, worked with nomads on the border of Afghanistan, ran with camel herders in Uzbekistan, found ancient artefacts in the high mountains of Tajikistan, come off several galloping horses, been irradiated, fallen down two cliffs, had a case of frost-related nerve damage, and exposed to who knows what on an abandoned experimental Soviet weapons testing facility.